Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 9
"Well, now, Uncle Remus, I didn't go to do it.
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: not go, do · To what, where: spang
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Remus | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | past · do-support | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Uncle Remus not said here | spang | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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